A. G. Leventis Fellowship, Penn Museum, Pennsylvania
The A. G. Leventis Foundation’s support of a twelve-month fellowship allowed the Penn Museum to complete a survey and create a treatment plan for materials from the Museum’s excavations at Lapithos, excavated by the Museum in 1931 under the direction of Bert Hodge Hill, with finds which extend from the Bronze Age to the Geometric period (ca. 3000-700 BCE). At the time, several cemeteries of both Bronze and Iron Age date were excavated, and 74 of the tombs yielded more than 2,900 objects. A large number of metal objects, including gold and silver, as well as richly decorated pottery attest to the wealth and cosmopolitanism of the community. A Minoan vessel found in one of the tombs remains the earliest import from the Aegean ever discovered in Cyprus. A. G. Leventis Foundation Fellow Aislinn Smalling joined the Penn Museum Conservation team in September 2015. In addition to completing a condition survey, her work includes select treatment and rehousing to conserve the objects and document this important site for scholarly purposes, and to significantly advance planning for a future Cypriot Gallery.
Grant given:
2015
